Sagas of the Gods, Heroes and Skalds of Iceland
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Sagas of the Gods, Heroes and Skalds of Iceland
9.99 €
Perhaps everyone today has heard of the harsh and fearsome Viking warriors who raided England and besieged Paris. What is less well known is that this crude and barbaric people supposedly had a unique sense of language, leaving us with a majestic corpus of mythological and heroic songs from the Edda and the brilliant culture of the Skalds.
This book is an attempt to understand how jokes were made and laughed, loved and hated in time immemorial. To feel how important good fame is in the eyes of others, because it is the only thing that remains after everyone, how insurmountable fate can become and how everyone can turn inevitability into a feat and the same good fame, writing a worthy saga of his life. A saga that will want to be retold and heard even a thousand years from now. Here you will find an overview of the literary heritage of Viking Age Iceland, a brief account of some mythological and folkloric motifs, the phenomenon of skaldic poetry and, of course, the texts of the sagas themselves.
This book is an attempt to understand how jokes were made and laughed, loved and hated in time immemorial. To feel how important good fame is in the eyes of others, because it is the only thing that remains after everyone, how insurmountable fate can become and how everyone can turn inevitability into a feat and the same good fame, writing a worthy saga of his life. A saga that will want to be retold and heard even a thousand years from now. Here you will find an overview of the literary heritage of Viking Age Iceland, a brief account of some mythological and folkloric motifs, the phenomenon of skaldic poetry and, of course, the texts of the sagas themselves.
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